Inference on tissue transplantation experiments.

We review studies on tissue transplantation experiments for various species: one piece of the donor tissue is excised, and transplanted into a slit in the host tissue, then observe the behavior of this grafted tissue. Although we have known some results of transplantation experiments, there are many more possible experiments that we do not know the results of. We develop a penalty function-based method that uses the results of known experiments to infer the results of unknown experiments. Similar experiments without similar results get penalized, and correspond to smaller probability. This method can provide the most probable results of a group of experiments, or the probability of a specific result for each experiment. This method is also generalized to other situations.